Monday, March 03, 2008

TEACHING/LEARNING REVOLUTION

As we have written in previous articles, in the field : Teaching/learning, the unavoidable tendency is to achieve knowledge (titles and grades, if one wants), to ages every time but early. For us, a profession should be achieved -for who wants it- among the 15 (acquisition of abstract thought/increased mieline in the front lobes) and 18 years. The official traditional systems that demand many years and many courses, are obsolete already. The key to learn in few years is to go of in front of the grain: manipulating actively the cognoscible thing or carrying out investigation works that create new knowledge (dynamic learning). It horrifies us to see our President, distributing millions of books with fixed knowledge (instead of self-renovable and dynamic) that will be in 3 months but antediluvian that exists. The teaching by means of rigid rules and books with fixed knowledge is an attack against the intelligence. Mozart learned music from the 5 years, listening melodies that his father and older sister played. In "The Learning Brain” (Sarah-Jayne Blakemore and Uta Frith), insists that after the 2 years of age the human brain is prepared to learn any thing. At the moment -far from exploiting that- we thoroughly step newly iron when the second massive, wave of neurons appear (12 -15 years).

The first country that adopts massively teaching/learning systems but adapted to human nature (passivity, laziness and routine intoxicate to the brain), will achieved impressive success. In the elite chess, the age of the world champions begin to diminish every year. Since a boy chess player (4-5 years), begin to play, he learn and question the plays of the big world champions, trying finally to innovate it. In the circle of the 10 top ten, there are 3 chess players of between 16 and 19 years. In academic but restrictive areas the Dra Katerina Aifantosobtained her grade in sciences to the 19 years. The polemic thing (or innovative, if one wants), of her case is that after having culminated in 1 year, her investigation work in the University of Cambrige/UK, tending to achieve her grade PhD, she was not able to get it, because the University demanded her that she remains 3 boring years of traditional rigor. After changing to the University of Groningenthat make similar experiments, she obtained her PhD in few months (21 years), a tendency to be imitated massively. You will see it.